Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin < 2.12.1 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-12251Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <2.12.1Update to 2.12.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.3
- CVSS
- 7.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin ultimate-member
- Affected< 2.12.1
- Patched in2.12.1
Update to 2.12.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 2.12.1. Version 2.12.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.12.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Haitam Lazaar.
The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to 2.12.1 (exclusive). This is due to the plugin not restricting ultimate member roles during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with select UM roles.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'user_url' Profile Field ≤2.14.0Update to 2.14.1 | CVE-2026-107625 | |
| High8.1 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0 | CVE-2026-115968 | |
| High7.5 | Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Profile Field Disclosure via Member Directory Field Privacy Bypass ≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0 | CVE-2026-93428 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'form_id' Parameter ≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0 | CVE-2026-96270 |
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom Textarea Profile Field
≤2.14.1Update to 2.14.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'user_url' Profile Field
≤2.14.0Update to 2.14.1
- High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0
- High7.5Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Profile Field Disclosure via Member Directory Field Privacy Bypass
≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'form_id' Parameter
≤2.13.1Update to 2.14.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.